Matthew Brown Skate-Parts.Com has been maintaining a blog for some time now. While this is a powerful tool in its own right, the latest posts were not being displayed on the front page. Placing the latest blog posts, either just the titles or the summaries, on the home page and if possible on other pages such as in the sidebar … Read more
WP Super Cache is a powerful caching tool for WordPress that can offer significant performance improvements. For a brief overview of what WP Super Cache is, what it does, and why it is beneficial for your WordPress website, check out my earlier article here. 4 Steps to Performance Gains Click on any of the images below to … Read more
WordPress is an excellent content management system, aimed at simplicity based on its core blogging focus. One of the downsides of it though is that it runs a lot of heavy PHP in the background and can be quite database dependent. This means that each time any user loads any page the main PHP script … Read more
For some reason, WordPress does not seem to give you an option to increase or decrease the JPG compression ratio in the media settings. This means your scaled images are stuck at the default compression ratio. The default is 90%. This is quite high and when used with high resolution, high-quality images, this is not going to … Read more
Ever needed a PayPal API signature to receive payments through your website? Normally this is only needed if you plan to use PayPal’s Express Checkout instead of the standard checkout, and the process to get your API signature can be a little confusing if you don’t know where to look. You can get them in … Read more
Every website is different, but no matter what your site is about, there are 13 things your website should have to allow you to to make the most of search engine optimisation on your website and improve it. All of the content managed (CMS) and e-commerce websites we build either include these things or include … Read more
There are always new statistics coming out showing how e-commerce is growing. More and more retailers are getting online and selling. The flip side of this is that credit card fraud through online sales is on the rise too, so what can you do to spot fraud and protect your business from it? Common fraud … Read more
Why find out? Finding the busiest time of day for your website is important because it can impact the response to new content. This is especially important where your website shows time-sensitive content such as promotions in your latest blog article or if your newest products are shown somewhere prominent, be it on the front … Read more
What is Google’s PageRank system? Google has developed a system that allocates a score between 0 and 10 to every website on the internet. This is known as PageRank and can be very useful in determining the online importance and impact of any website. When the Google Spider (the robot that crawls the internet to … Read more
I received an email earlier today that is quite sneaky and has been fairly well put together to scam people. So I thought I’d use it as an example and give you a run through on things to look out for when you receive an email that could be a scam. If you have a … Read more
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